Valencia players urge the assistant referee to watch a video replay of their penalty, which officials failed to spot had crossed the line.
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Gary Neville called the officiating “scandalous” after a bizarre refereeing error resulted in Valencia’s youth side losing to Chelsea in a controversial penalty shoot-out.

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The Uefa Youth League match ended 1-1 at Chelsea’s Cobham training ground before going to penalties, which Chelsea won 5-4 – but only after Alberto Gil’s spot-kick, Valencia’s first of the shootout, was wrongly disallowed.

Videos showed the ball crossing the line before striking a stanchion and bouncing clear, but both the referee and the official on the goal-line ruled it had hit a post.

The Valencia first-team players Antonio Barragán and Paco Alcácer also complained about the decision on Twitter.

Valencia later announced they would be appealing to Uefa, saying: “Valencia wish to inform all our fans that the club will present a written protest in relation to the refereeing decision to disallow a goal for our team in the penalty shoot-out of the Uefa Youth League game against Chelsea.

“We trust that Uefa will give an appropriate response at the level required by the situation, after it has had the opportunity to analyse our appeal.